Parenting to Prevent Childhood Alcohol Use

Parents can play an important role in helping their children develop health attitudes toward drinking while minimizing their risk of underage drinking. This fact sheet describes how parenting styles and other actions by parents can influence their children's decisions about whether and how to drink - decisions that can have lifelong consequences.

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismReleased: 2010Pages: 4Publication ID: 2209Item number: 2209